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GROSS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gross mean?
• GROSS (noun)
The noun GROSS has 2 senses:
1. twelve dozen
2. the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
Familiarity information: GROSS used as a noun is rare.
• GROSS (adjective)
The adjective GROSS has 7 senses:
1. before any deductions
2. lacking fine distinctions or detail
3. repellently fat
4. visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
5. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
6. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
7. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Familiarity information: GROSS used as an adjective is common.
• GROSS (verb)
The verb GROSS has 1 sense:
1. earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
Familiarity information: GROSS used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Twelve dozen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
144; gross
Hypernyms ("gross" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The entire amount of income before any deductions are made
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("gross" is a kind of...):
amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gross"):
box office (total admission receipts for an entertainment)
gate (total admission receipts at a sports event)
Derivation:
gross (earn before taxes, expenses, etc.)
gross (before any deductions)
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: grossest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Before any deductions
Context example:
gross income
Similar:
overall (including everything)
Antonym:
net (remaining after all deductions)
Derivation:
gross (the entire amount of income before any deductions are made)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking fine distinctions or detail
Context example:
the gross details of the structure appear reasonable
Similar:
general (applying to all or most members of a category or group)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Repellently fat
Synonyms:
gross; porcine
Context example:
a bald porcine old man
Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
Synonyms:
gross; megascopic
Similar:
seeable; visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Synonyms:
arrant; complete; consummate; double-dyed; everlasting; gross; perfect; pure; sodding; staring; stark; thorough; thoroughgoing; unadulterated; utter
Context example:
the unadulterated truth
Similar:
unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Synonyms:
Context example:
full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
Similar:
indecent (offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters)
Derivation:
grossness (the quality of lacking taste and refinement)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Synonyms:
crying; egregious; flagrant; glaring; gross; rank
Context example:
rank treachery
Similar:
conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it grosses Past simple: grossed
Past participle: grossed
-ing form: grossing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "gross" is one way to...):
bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
gross (the entire amount of income before any deductions are made)
Context examples
My gross takings amount to £ 27 10s.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His was the grosser organism, and it had taken him half a second longer to perceive, and determine, and proceed to do.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I had worked two chairs with my knife, the sorrel nag helping me in the grosser and more laborious part.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A disorder characterized by gross necrosis of the myocardium; this is due to an interruption of blood supply to the area.
(Myocardial Infarction, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
This type of thymoma usually occurs in myasthenia gravis patients without any macroscopic (gross) evidence of tumor. — 2005
(Microscopic Thymoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The ability to use large muscle groups for gross body movements.
(Gross Motor Skill, NCI Thesaurus)
He found them not among the careless, gross, and stupid intelligences that answered the call of vision to his narrow room.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The gross appearance is usually typical with an irregular stellate outline.
(Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)
The gross pathology findings recorded at necropsy.
(Macroscopic Findings Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A measurement of the blood in body products such as a urine or stool sample, not detectable on gross examination.
(Occult Blood Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
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